First Year's Growth of Yellow 

 Dock 



AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



ably come up in the sample plot according to the 



seed that has been 

 sown and that seed's 

 most intimate enemy. 

 In school gardens 

 of from 5 to 10 acres 

 where the sample 

 plots are of consider- 

 able size, or in gar- 

 dens connected with 

 agricultural schools 

 or colleges, the weeds 

 would be immediately 

 recognized by the trained teachers in agriculture 

 who are usually in charge. If they occur in the city 

 school garden or 

 the small rural 

 one, they are often 

 easily placed as to 

 their name and his- 

 tory by a careful 

 study of the crop in 

 which they appear. 

 If local conditions 

 supply no oppor- 

 tunities for this 

 kind of research, 

 and helpful bulle- 

 tins cannot be had from either Washington or the 

 State Experiment Station, the weed will be iden- 

 tified if sent to the latter. Moreover, your sample 



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JiMsoN Weed 



